A grocery cashier was killed by an irate customer at a suburban Atlanta grocery store on Monday, June 14, 2021. The man left the store after being told to wear a mask, returned with a gun, and shot the cashier in the head. He then shot an off-duty sheriff’s deputy working as a security guard, [...]
Archive for June, 2021
June 15th, 2021 - 8:53 am § in Science
Testing Your IQ … with DNA?
DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one Abstracted from MIT Technology Review, Antonio Regalado April 2, 2018 A year ago, no gene had ever been tied to performance on an IQ test. Since then, more than 500 have, thanks to gene studies involving more than 200,000 test [&hell[...]
June 14th, 2021 - 4:41 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Next Supreme Court justice?
“The Senate voted Monday evening to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … to fill a vacancy on a powerful DC-based appellate court and one of the [Biden’s] most closely watched judicial nominees,” CNN reported on Tuesday, June 14, 2021 (read story here). ̶[...]
June 14th, 2021 - 12:18 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
McConnell’s Hunger Games
McConnell says Senate Republicans won’t consider a Biden Supreme Court nominee in 2024, reiterating the position they took with Obama nominee Merrick Garland in 2016, The Hill reported on Monday, June 14, 2021 — and threw in some “whataboutism” for good measure. “I thin[...]
June 13th, 2021 - 2:13 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
What’s wrong with Trump?
Everything. It’s been said that everyone has some good in them, but I’m hard pressed to think of any of Trump’s redeeming qualities. As far as I can tell, he has none. On the other hand, it’s easy to recall his failings, weaknesses, and bad traits, because he has so many of t[...]
Biden restores military funds Trump purloined for border wall
“The Pentagon will restore $2.2 billion to military construction projects that were stripped by the Trump administration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border,” The Hill reported on Friday, June 12, 2021 (read story here). The money that Trump misappropriated included funding fo[...]
June 12th, 2021 - 2:31 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Arizona GOP’s fake election “audit” becomes a tourist attraction
True Believers in Trump’s election lies (irony intended) are flocking to Phoenix to watch the Arizona GOP’s clown show up close and personal. “The hottest new destination for political tourists this summer,” The Hill says (here, irony probably intentional; it’s 115 degr[...]
June 12th, 2021 - 1:56 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Anti-masker gets 10 years for assault
A confrontation that started over a mask and escalated into a parking lot fight sent one man to a hospital and another to prison. Shane Wayne Michael (pictured below), 42, followed Mark Dinning out of a Des Moines, Iowa, business on November 11, 2020, after the two exchanged words over Michael’[...]
June 11th, 2021 - 9:33 pm § in Politics
Oregon GOP legislator expelled for colluding with rioters
Update: The Oregon legislature expelled GOP Rep. Mike Nearman on Thursday, June 10, 2021. Republicans joined with Democrats in kicking him out; the only “no” vote was cast by Nearman himself. His party will appoint a successor to fill his seat. Read the latest here. “Just days befo[...]
June 11th, 2021 - 2:44 pm § in Misc.
America lets monsters have guns
Timothy J. Wall, 55, posted on Facebook that he desired to “kill people and children.” Then he walked into a Florida supermarket, shot a 1-year-old boy in the head, and after a brief struggle with the boy’s grandmother, shot her too. Police say they didn’t know him. Then he k[...]